Coffee Business

There are countless options when it comes to buying a coffee mail order subscription. In this post, I’m going to list a few coffee roasters that both excel at roasting coffee and operating a subscription service. Also, I’m going to provide some tips to help you find other roasters should the ones listed below not […]

“Coffee Honey” – the first time I saw this, I was exploring the original Akha Ama Cafe in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I was doing as I do when checking out a new cafe – tasting their coffees and just letting my eyes wander around the shop. I usually ignore the pastry display cases, because well…I’m […]

Before I go into what I see as the problems with specialty coffee, I will provide some background on myself. In addition to being the publisher of INeedCoffee, I am a huge fan of going to coffee shops. In the last ten years, I have been to several hundred different cafes, mostly in Seattle but […]

This post was originally written in May 2010. One of the perks of running a coffee website is that I will on occasion get invited to coffee-related events. Being in Seattle helps too. Most are for new coffee offerings and product launches. This spring I received the most interesting invitation to date: Starbucks was inviting […]

Did you have a cup of coffee yesterday? If you’re an American over the age of 18, then the answer is probably ‘yes.’ That’s because 54% of adults drink coffee every day in this country [1]. This is completely understandable: it’s delicious, it wakes us up, and we’re totally addicted. Here’s another question: did you […]

Extreme weather patterns caused by climate change are having a dramatic affect on coffee production throughout the world. Rising temperatures, increased rainfall and the proliferation of pests have all played their part in destroying coffee plantations in almost every coffee-producing nation across the globe. For many of us living in the western world, the tangible […]